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French slalom canoeist
Denis Gargaud Chanut (born 22 July 1987 in Marseille ) is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level in C1 since 2004. Between 2009 and 2011 he also competed in the C2 category alongside Fabien Lefèvre . He won a gold medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .[ 2] [ 3]
Gargaud Chanut also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (C1: 2011 , C2 team: 2010 , 2011), three silvers (C1 team: 2009 , C2: 2010, 2011) and two bronzes (C1 team: 2013 , 2017 ). He won eight medals at the European Championships (two golds, two silvers and four bronzes).[ 1] [ 4]
Denis's aunt and uncle, Pierre and Cathy Chassigneux, were French champions in the mixed C2 category and run a canoe-kayak club on the Loire river in Orléans ; Denis took up canoeing there aged 12. He later excelled internationally, but failed to qualify for the 2008 and 2012 Olympics due to a strong competition with Tony Estanguet , and considered retiring.[ 1]
Denis is the founder and head of the Duo Tonic and Mulebar company, which produces bars drinks and energy gels for athletes.[ 1]
World Cup individual podiums
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1949: France (Michel Duboille /Jacques Rousseau , Claude Neveu /Roger Paris & René Gavinet /Simon Gavinet )
1951: France (Pierre d'Alençon /Jean Dreux , Jacques Musson /André Pean & Claude Neveu /Roger Paris )
1953: France (René Gavinet /Simon Gavinet , Claude Neveu /Roger Paris & Pierre d'Alençon /Jean-Luc Houssaye )
1955: Czechoslovakia (František Hrabě /Jiří Kotana , Vladimír Lánský /Josef Hendrych & Rudolf Flégr /Milan Řehoř )
1957: Czechoslovakia (Rudolf Flégr /Milan Řehoř , Václav Havel /Josef Hendrych & František Hrabě /Jiří Kotana )
1959: East Germany (Dieter Friedrich /Horst Kleinert , Dieter Göthe /Lothar Schubert & Manfred Glöckner /Rudolf Seifert )
1961: East Germany (Gernot Bergmann /Horst Rosenhagen , Dieter Friedrich /Horst Kleinert & Günther Merkel /Manfred Merkel )
1963: East Germany (Siegfried Lück /Jürgen Noak , Günther Merkel /Manfred Merkel & Manfred Glöckner /Rudolf Seifert )
1965: Czechoslovakia (Ladislav Měšťan /Zdeněk Měšťan , Emil Pollert /Jaroslav Pollert & Jaroslav Brejcha /Milan Kalas )
1967: East Germany (Ulrich Hippauf /Willi Landers , Siegfried Lück /Jürgen Noak & Günther Merkel /Manfred Merkel )
1969: West Germany (Karl-Heinz Scheffer /Heinz-Jürgen Steinschulte , Manfred Heß /Wolfgang Wenzel & Hermann Roock /Norbert Schmidt )
1971: East Germany (Rolf-Dieter Amend /Walter Hofmann , Klaus Trummer /Jürgen Kretschmer & Uwe Franz /Ulrich Opelt )
1973: West Germany (Olaf Fricke /Michael Reimann , Karl-Heinz Scheffer /Heinz-Jürgen Steinschulte & Wilhelm Baues /Hans-Otto Schumacher )
1975: East Germany (Rolf-Dieter Amend /Walter Hofmann , Herbert Fischer /Jürgen Henze & Klaus Trummer /Jürgen Kretschmer )
1977: Czechoslovakia (Jiří Benhák /Ladislav Benhák , Radomír Halfar /Svetomír Kmošťák & Miroslav Nedvěd /Pavel Schwarc )
1979: Poland (Wojciech Kudlik /Jerzy Jeż , Jan Frączek /Ryszard Seruga & Zbigniew Czaja /Jacek Kasprzycki )
1981: Great Britain (Jock Young /Alistair Munro , Robert Joce /Robert Owen & Eric Jamieson /Robin Williams )
1983: Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Hajdučík /Milan Kučera , Dušan Zaťko /Ľudovít Tkáč & František Slavík /Jiří Decastelo )
1985: Czechoslovakia (Jiří Rohan /Miroslav Šimek , Miroslav Hajdučík /Milan Kučera & Viktor Beneš /Ondřej Mohout )
1987: France (Pierre Calori /Jacques Calori , Michel Saidi /Jérôme Daval & Gilles Lelievre /Jérôme Daille )
1989: France (Emmanuel del Rey /Thierry Saidi , Michel Saidi /Jérôme Daval & Gilles Lelievre /Jérôme Daille )
1991: France (Frank Adisson /Wilfrid Forgues , Thierry Saidi /Emmanuel del Rey & Gilles Lelievre /Jérôme Daille )
1993: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras /Tomáš Máder , Petr Štercl /Pavel Štercl & Jiří Rohan /Miroslav Šimek )
1995: Czech Republic (Jiří Rohan /Miroslav Šimek , Petr Štercl /Pavel Štercl & Jaroslav Pospíšil /Jaroslav Pollert )
1997: France (Frank Adisson /Wilfrid Forgues , Emmanuel del Rey /Thierry Saidi & Éric Biau /Bertrand Daille )
1999: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras /Tomáš Máder , Jaroslav Volf /Ondřej Štěpánek & Jaroslav Pospíšil /Jaroslav Pollert )
2002: France (Pierre Luquet /Christophe Luquet , Alexandre Lauvergne /Nathanael Fouquet & Philippe Quémerais /Yann Le Pennec )
2003: Czech Republic (Jaroslav Volf /Ondřej Štěpánek , Jaroslav Pospíšil /Jaroslav Pollert & Marek Jiras /Tomáš Máder )
2006: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras /Tomáš Máder , Jaroslav Volf /Ondřej Štěpánek & Jaroslav Pospíšil /Jaroslav Pollert )
2007: Czech Republic (Jaroslav Volf /Ondřej Štěpánek , Marek Jiras /Tomáš Máder & Jaroslav Pospíšil /David Mrůzek )
2009: Slovakia (Pavol Hochschorner /Peter Hochschorner , Ladislav Škantár /Peter Škantár & Tomáš Kučera /Ján Bátik )
2010: France (Denis Gargaud Chanut /Fabien Lefèvre , Gauthier Klauss /Matthieu Péché & Pierre Picco /Hugo Biso )
2011: France (Gauthier Klauss /Matthieu Péché , Pierre Labarelle /Nicolas Peschier & Denis Gargaud Chanut /Fabien Lefèvre )
2013: Czech Republic (Ondřej Karlovský /Jakub Jáně , Jonáš Kašpar /Marek Šindler & Jaroslav Volf /Ondřej Štěpánek )
2014: France (Pierre Labarelle /Nicolas Peschier , Gauthier Klauss /Matthieu Péché & Pierre Picco /Hugo Biso )
2015: France (Pierre Picco /Hugo Biso , Gauthier Klauss /Matthieu Péché & Yves Prigent /Loïc Kervella )